Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How Individuals Make Choices Based on Their Budget
By the end of this section, you will be able to calculate and graph budgets constraints, explain opportunity sets and opportunity costs, evaluate the law of diminishing marginal utility, and explain how marginal analysis and utility...
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer: Making a Budget
Learn all about budgeting including saving money and how to make and use a budget. Includes examples.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Budgeting
Lessons and activities to teach students about creating and living within a budget.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Budgeting Data Crunch
Data Crunches feature one chart or graph followed by five scaffolded questions to guide students through analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. These sets of data help students understand financial concepts such as budgeting.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Budgeting
It is very important that you know about budgeting and have discussed it before you get married. Learn why a budget must be flexible in order to work and is important for couples managing money.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: National Budget Simulation
How would you deal with the national budget if you were the President of the United States? What if there was a national emergency? This site includes a budget simulation on the computer that allows students to make real budget...
US Government Publishing Office
Ben's Guide to u.s. Government: Branches of Government: The President's Budget
Ben's Guide is a fun way to present US laws to students. This site presents an explanation of the Presidential Budget. Links to related sites are available.
Bill of Rights Institute
Bill of Rights Institute: The Federal Budget and the Constitution
What responsibilities belong to the U.S. President and the Congressional houses when it comes to establishing the federal budget? Take a look at these resources and incorporate this lesson into classroom learning.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: The 1998 Federal Budget
Transcript of PBS )nterview (from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer") with OMB Director, Franklin Raines, discussing the rationale behind the 1998 Federal budget proposed by the Clinton Administration.
C-SPAN
C Span Classroom: Teaching About Balanced Budget Amendment
Learning resource using C-SPAN videos and related articles from which students learn what a balanced budget amendment is and whether it's a good idea for the country or not. Students join the debate by participating in a deliberation in...
The Balance
The Balance: u.s. Military Budget: Components, Challenges, and Growth
Defense spending in the second largest budgetary item in the U.S. national budget. This explains in general terms how the funds are allocated and provides a chart showing military spending since 2003.
Indiana University
The Center on Congress: E Learning Module: Federal Budget Allocation
Interactive learning activity teaches how Congress allocates funds in the federal budget for programs such as Homeland Security, Defense, and Education.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 2
This audio excerpt from Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech outlines a nine-year plan to end poverty in America.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Federal Budget
Overview on the complexities of the federal budgeting process and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Other
The Mint: Ideas for Teachers: Budgeting Your Financial Resources
This lesson plan teaches students about different types of income and expenses and allows them to develop a personal budget.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Personal Budget
Get some tips here on how to set up a personal budget by analyzing expenses, budgeting for the whole year, reducing expenses, tracking expenditures, paying off debts, planning for emergencies, and investing.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Budgeting
Illustrates the difference between sources of income and fixed versus variable expenses through a simple budget plan. Introduces students to the basics of budgeting.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Decisions Within a Budget Constraint
Another approach to maximizing utility uses indifference curves (sometimes called utility curves) and budget constraints to identify the utility optimizing combination of consumption. Read about this method in this article.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Creating a Budget
Detailed lesson highlights strategies to use to create a sound financial budget.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Budget Now Before You Start Looking for a New Job
Learn how to budget so you can more freely search for your dream job.
Bankrate
Bankrate: How to Budget
This site shows you how to set up and manage your own budget. Includes several bullets points and information for understanding. (2001)
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Becoming a Wise Consumer: Creating a Budget
In this instructional activity, students will learn how to become a wise consumer by creating a budget based on needs and wants. Students will create a weekly budget with a variable income using the interactive app MWB: My Weekly Budget...
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